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Chef Automate (First 10 nodes free)

Chef | 1.8.85

Linux/Unix, CentOS 7.2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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18 AWS reviews

External reviews

53 reviews
from G2

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    Earl W.

Automation meets DevOps

  • April 28, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
It works on most platforms windows and Linux many flavors. Robust offering
What do you dislike about the product?
Server head must be Linux. Not a bad thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Server build similar to Desired State
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A proven leader in Automation software

    saad

It doesn't work

  • April 17, 2018
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

I have tried multiple times to create an instance of this AMI and set up chef, but it doesn't connect.

    setu s.

Repeatable Infrastructure has been made easy

  • April 15, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
IT infrastructure can be saved /reused as when required. Less time to create infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to learn the language for beginners
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) Faster time to market
2) Less human error
3) Robust infrastrcuture

    Chef-Server-10-Free

Do not use.

  • April 05, 2018
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Similar to other people, I tried this for the Chef training course and had no end of gateway and sign-up and then SSL issues so I wasnt able to use it. Unfortunate. Please review this AMI.

    Deano

Bad Gateway - and how to fix

  • March 04, 2018
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

I had the same Bad Gateway errors as the other reviewers. I did a little digging and found a fix.

ssh on and then

sudo chef-server-ctl upgrade

    Information Technology and Services

Chef to automate your infra

  • February 05, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand, configure the management of your infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
available documentation is less as compare to other tools,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we need to deploy a software developed by our developer, our infrastructure is very complex with different OS, environment, DBs, explorers, with the help of CHEF we did this within stipulated time without any issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to learn, implement, configure, distribute over the landscape, Ruby is the main attraction, can cook the best food for you with its available cookbooks for your infrastructure to automate

    Food & Beverages

Exective chef at a university

  • December 22, 2017
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Being able to feed people with simpe ingrednts
What do you dislike about the product?
At times the lack of knowdgle of the time it takes to make a dish
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Meeting food cost
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Not at this time

    Phil A.

Longtime user and fan of Chef

  • December 21, 2017
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The Chef DK allows you to have a full CI/CD workflow for your infrastructure as code. With chef you can stick to the community cookbooks and boilerplate resources or you can make it do anything you like with raw ruby.
What do you dislike about the product?
As everyone says it can be a bit daunting to get started. Most new development seems to be targeted at enterprises.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Chef, there's no excuse not to have your entire infrastructure as code.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's worth spending a bit more time up front to understand the product than you might with other configuration management solutions. The benefit is much more power and a massive community.

    Zach

Doesn't work

  • December 14, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Attempted to use this with the "Lean Chef Ralley" "Manage a Node with Chef Automate" lesson. UNUSABLE. After trying to do the setup and I get an internal server error and can download the starter kit or login to the automate console. Tried to login via command line as root and with the key I associated wit the server but still nothing.

    ccelis

Setup is getting error 500

  • December 05, 2017
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Hi, after launch the ec2. I try to setup a new org. But after fullfill the form I get a 500 (Internal server error).

Looking in the logs a see the next:

"2017-12-04_21:16:33.32044 200.54.48.178 - - [04/Dec/2017:21:16:33 +0000] "POST /biscotti/setup/starter-kit HTTP/1.1" 500 30 0.0635
2017-12-05_12:50:52.23931 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:50:52 +0000] "GET /biscotti/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1780 0.0008
2017-12-05_12:50:52.44307 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:50:52 +0000] "GET /biscotti/assets/js/app.js HTTP/1.1" 200 393481 0.0013
2017-12-05_12:50:53.30506 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:50:53 +0000] "GET /biscotti/assets/images/icons/all.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 59 0.0005
2017-12-05_12:51:17.89212 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:51:17 +0000] "POST /biscotti/ HTTP/1.1" 303 - 0.0008
2017-12-05_12:51:18.08876 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:51:18 +0000] "GET /biscotti/setup HTTP/1.1" 200 6495 0.0011
2017-12-05_12:51:18.40693 200.54.48.178 - - [05/Dec/2017:12:51:18 +0000] "GET /biscotti/assets/images/icons/all.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 59 0.0006
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71659 2017-12-05 12:52:08 - Net::HTTPServerException - 409 "Conflict":
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71660 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/lib/ruby/2.4.0/net/http/response.rb:122:in `error!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/chef-13.4.19/lib/chef/http.rb:152:in `request'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/chef-13.4.19/lib/chef/http.rb:131:in `post'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/biscotti/lib/chef_server_setup.rb:41:in `create_org'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/biscotti/app/extensions/starter_kit_dsl.rb:26:in `setup_chef_server'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71661 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/biscotti/app/routes/setup.rb:13:in `block in '
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71663 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1632:in `call'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1632:in `block
in compile!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:991:in `block (
3 levels) in route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1010:in `route_
eval'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71664 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:991:in `block (2 levels) in route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1037:in `block in process_route'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1035:in `catch'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1035:in `process_route'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:989:in `block in route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71665 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:988:in `each'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71666 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:988:in `route!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71666 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1094:in `block in dispatch!'
2017-12-05_12:52:08.71666 /opt/chef-marketplace/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.4.0/gems/sinatra-2.0.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:1073:in `block in invoke'
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The version that I have been launch was: 1.7.39-1

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